“All ate and were filled.” Jesus was never outdone in generosity! The first reading tells us that Elisha fed 100 people with some barley loaves. After feeding 4,000 on one side of Lake Galilee, Jesus went to the other side of the lake and fed 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish and had 12 baskets of fragments left over! Jesus fulfills and surpasses. Our lives are filled with Jesus’ generosity. Count the blessings.

Now share the bounty. Jesus told his disciples, “You give them something to eat” and multiplies the little beyond expectation. We can seize the moment to be a blessing—to “share the fragments” with those around us with a smile, a kind word, a call, a card. A blessing given can be contagious, reaping unimaginable results. “And all ate and were filled.”

by Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa Judy Lund, OP